It's Alive!
The Monster's memoir
Characters & Creatures
Themes & Symbolism
Setting The Scene
100

Who was the scientist responsible for reanimating the monster?

Who is Victor Frankenstein 

100

Who is the first person the monster tries to befriend after his creation?


Who is the De Lacey family?


100

Who is Victor Frankenstein's fiancĂ©e 


Who is Elizabeth Lavenza?


100

What theme does Victor's disregard for the consequences of his experiment highlight?


What is the dangers of playing God?


100

In what city is Victor Frankenstein born?


What is Geneva?


200

What university does Victor Frankenstein attend where he discovers the theory of creating life?

What is the University of Ingolstadt?

200

How does the monster learn to read and speak?


By secretly observing the De Lacey family and listening to their lessons.


200

Who is the devoted friend who supports Victor throughout the novel, even as Victor becomes more consumed by his work?


Who is Henry Clerval?


200

What recurring symbol in the novel represents both knowledge and destruction, echoing the myth of Prometheus?


What is fire?


200

What natural setting often brings Victor peace and serves as a contrast to his dark experiments?


What are the Swiss Alps?


300

What natural occurrence sparks Victor Frankenstein's fascination with the power of creating life?

What is a lightning strike?

300

What book deeply influences the monster's understanding of humanity and shapes his self-perception?


What is A Lost Paradise?

300

Who is the captain of the ship that rescues Victor in the Arctic and records his story?


Who is Robert Walton?


300

Which theme is highlighted through the monster's isolation and rejection by society?


What is the theme of loneliness and alienation?


300

In which remote and icy location does Robert Walton first encounter Victor at the beginning of the novel?


What is The Arctic?

400

What branch of science does Victor become obsessed with before turning to modern chemistry and electricity?


What is alchemy?

400

Why does the monster consider himself similar to both Adam and Satan from Paradise Lost?


What is because he was created pure like Adam but feels rejected and vengeful like Satan?


400

Who is Victor's father, who tries to support him through his struggles?


Alphonse Frankenstein?


400

What does the recurring image of the moon symbolize in the novel?


What is the duality of light and dark, or the contrast between knowledge and ignorance?


400

Where does the monster confront Victor and demand that he create a companion for him?


What is the Montanvert glacier in the Alps?


500

Victor uses parts from various corpses to create the monster. What is one reason he makes the creature so large?

What is because working with larger body parts was easier for delicate procedures?


500

After being rejected by society and the De Lacey family, what act of revenge does the monster commit first against Victor?


What is killing William Frankenstein?


500

Who is wrongly accused and executed for William Frankenstein's murder?


Who is Justine Moritz?


500

Why is Frankenstein subtitled The Modern Prometheus?


What is Victor's defiance of natural limits?


500

On which group of islands does Victor begin creating the female creature before destroying it?


What are the Orkney Islands?


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